“We want to make Dubai the first blockchain-powered government in the world by 2020,” says Aisha Bin Bishr, director general of Smart Dubai, a government office tasked with facilitating innovation in the emirate. Public-private effortIn March, Smart Dubai kicked off a citywide effort to implement blockchain. Following these workshops, Smart Dubai expects the public and private sectors to collaborate and start rolling out blockchain pilot projects this year. Smart Dubai has appointed International Business Machines Corp. IBM 0.23% as its blockchain lead strategic partner and Consensys, a custom-software development consultancy, as its blockchain adviser. “The key is to always keep business value at the forefront.”First stepsSeveral key Dubai entities are already trying out the blockchain technology.

Source: Wall Street Journal April 25, 2017 02:08 UTC